Presenter: Stacy Wolfe
Time: 9:30 - 10:15
Room: 1101
Contact: wolfes@rlasd.k12.pa.us

Description of Presentation
Learn about the ways to incorporate web 2.0 tools and movie maker software into your language arts classroom.

Huck Finn Movie Trailer Info




A Raisin in the Sun Web 2.0 Tool Project



If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email!

Presentation Blog/Notes:

Multimedia in the classroom
~ Integration of text, animation, sound, and video in the classroom
(web 2.0 tools – web based applications)
~ Keynote/ppt (can change to a web based tool online)
Benefits:
~ student accountability
~ work from home
~ many options
~ fluid
Detriments:
~ Internet based
~ Fluid (constantly being updated)
Classroom Application:
~ A Raisin in the Sun project that included music/poem/visual creation
~ 4 days to create and 3 days to present – Students presented with a web 2.0 tools
~ Students collaborated and learned tools together (2 students needed to use the same tool)
Tools used:
~ Onetruemedia
~ Scrapblog
~ Jaycut
~ Joggle
~ myPlick
~ slideshare
~ JayCut
~ Slide Rocket
~Slide Roll
~ Voice Thread
~ Glogster
~ Slide Boom
~ Animoto
~ CogDogRoo – place to find these Web 2.0 tools

Other ideas:
~ Scrapblog with Emily Dickinson’s poems
~ Use Circavie to chart an author’s life
~ Choose a character to blabberize
~ e-mail presenter for the other ideas
Making Movies:
~ Why make them? …engage students, higher order thinking skills… fun… creative
~ Why do people see movies? (Purpose of making movie trailers)
~ Watched 2 trailers (of movies that the students did not see or could not see)
~ Discussed parts of the movie trailer
~ Watched 2 more movie trailers
~ The Assignment was for students to make their own movie trailer… (no more than 5 mns – most are 2-2 1/2 minutes)
~ Students scripted, acted, filmed, edited (divided up into 6 groups of 5). Students had multiple roles
~ Each group was given a different genre of a movie (Satire, comedy, romance, drama, action, musical)
Steps to making the movies:
~ Step 1: Planning (3 days for students to storyboard (found online), create scripts, plan
costumes and props)
~ Step 2: Filming (2 days, filmed outside in the woods, used web cams on MacBook, some
students brought own cameras)
~ Step 3: Editing (3 days, used iMovie to add footage, music, sound, effects, and title slides – students learned by watching tutorials on how to use iMovie)
~ Step 4: Red Carpet Premier (Students dressed up & walked on the Red Carpet – invited admin and the press (even parents) to experience, held in aud to watch the “big screen”, gave out “Leo Awards”

Was it worth it?
~ YES… students learned teamwork, troubleshooting, technology skills, independence, pride, ability to try new things
~ Teacher burned DVDs of the trailers for students (charged $2 a DVD)

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